XPS is widely used to determine the chemical composition of a surface (element concentrations, chemical states, lateral and depth distributions, etc.). Nowadays XPS has become a standard technique for the characterizatio nof solid surface. however, XPS data require thorough analysis, and dedicated software is used for data analysis. purdue University has a site license for CasaXPS allowing complete analysis XPS data. The course aims to teach (1) what analysis should be...

XPS is widely used to determine the chemical composition of a surface (element concentrations, chemical states, lateral and depth distributions, etc.). Nowadays XPS has become a standard technique for the characterization of solid surface. The course will teach how and what information can be provided by XPS. https://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2aEjFISmtrn3IlD

Yurii Vlasov IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Optical interconnects in computing systems – from fiber to the server to fiber to the brain I will give an overview of the IBM Silicon Nanophotonics project that I led for over a decade from its early scientific exploration stage to technology transfer and qualification in IBM microelectronics foundry fab. The technology is aimed at low-power cost-efficient optical interconnects for internet mega-datacenters and high-performance...

TEDxPurdueU presents MERAKI TEDxPurdueU, Purdue’s own independently organized TED conference, is scheduled to host their fourth annual flagship event from 6-10 p.m. on April 11, in Loeb Playhouse at the university’s West Lafayette campus. The theme of TEDxPurdueU 2015 is “Meraki.” An untranslatable word from Modern Greek, it is used to describe doing something with passion, creativity, or love – when you...

Integrated Imaging: the Sum is Greater than the Parts Most natural and manufactured materials are spatially complex and heterogeneous, and their performance is typically linked to this heterogeneity. Bulk analysis methods ignore these realities, but imaging and microscopy offer a way to see the real material in all of its complexity and explore its local behavior. When combined with spectroscopy, diffraction, or other analytical methods they allow one to understand what one sees. One can...

Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and Systems Atomically-thin materials represent the thinnest possible components of future device applications with extreme reduction in size scales. While tremendous progress has recently been made in understanding the large-scale properties of atomically-thin materials, the low-dimensional aspects, although critical to the smallest device sizes, have received comparatively much less attention. Within this important field of...

Flexible, Impedance-sensing “Smart Bandages” Enable Early Detection of Pressure Wounds Sarah Swisher received her BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004. Upon graduation, Sarah spent several years as the lead electrical design engineer for a series of GPS-enabled bicycle computers at Garmin, Intl. She received her MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, and will receive her PhD in the...

Uncertainty Quantification in Reliability Prediction of Aging Systems Professor SankaranMahadevanhas more than twenty-five years of research and teaching experience in reliability and risk analysis methods, design optimization, structural health monitoring, and model verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (V&V and UQ) methods. His research has been extensively funded by NSF, NASA, FAA, DOE, DOD, DOT, NIST, General Motors, Chrysler, Union Pacific, American Railroad...

Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors: An Endless Playground for Fundamental Physics and Applications Konstantinos Lagoudakisstudied in at the National KapodestrianUniversity in Athens, Greece where he received a Bachelor of Science in Physics with specialization on Solid State Physics. He went on with his studies at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, United Kingdom where he received a Master of Science in Optics and Photonics. He then moved to the...

Photonic Quantum Cloud Computing and Quantum Simulation Philip Walther is a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna. Since 2013, he has been the Head of the Quantum Optics, -Nanophysics, -Information Group, which includes seven workgroups with more than 100 people, and in 2014 he also became the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Physics. He was elected to membership of the German Young Academy in 2007, the Global Young Academy in 2012, and the...

Biosensors and nanotechnology in modern veterinary and human medicine: research challenges Jeff C.H. Ko, DVM, MS, DACVAA Professor, Anesthesiology Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine Introduction on College of Veterinary Medicine research facility Gert J. Breur, DVM, MS, PhD Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine In this presentation, the challenges of using biosensors and nanotechnology in veterinary and human medicine will...

Professor GlebYushin Materials and Engineering and Director of the Center for Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage Georgia Institute of Technology NanocompositeElectrodes For Next Generation Energy Storage Devices GlebYushinis a Professor at the School of Materials and Engineering and a Director of the Center for Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage at Georgia Institute of Technology. For his contributions to materials science, he has received numerous awards and...

Learn about career opportunities in high tech. Acquire valuable, practical information that will helpyou choose career directions and plan for success. This seminar will help students to meet the demands of today’s high tech work force and to be successful with their careers. Industry volunteers will share what the high tech industry looks for when they recruit for new graduates. AGENDA 2:00pm Welcome to SEMI Professional Development Seminar 2:15pm Industry...

Harnessing single photons in quantum technology Xiao-Song Ma is a Marie Curie postdoc fellow in Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. His main research interests are in experimental implementations of photonic quantum information processing. The spectrum of his research covers quantum nano-photonics, quantum communication, simulation and foundations of quantum physics. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University in 2003, Master’s degree from...

Cleanrooms: Using Cleanrooms to Control Particle Contamination A Workshop Presented by Purdue University This workshop will provide a brief overview of particle behavior to establish a basis for understanding the operation of a cleanroom, then concentrates on the function of a cleanroom and how a cleanroom carries out that function. It will demonstrate a wide variety of concepts available to the cleanroom designer and discuss the tradeoffs inherent in these concepts. The workshop will...

Development of Flexible Printed Electronics Platform Dr. TseNga(Tina) Ng is a Senior Research Scientist with the Electronic Materials and Device Laboratory at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She joined PARC in 2006, and since then her research has focused on flexible electronics. Her work on printed systems has received the 2012 Innovation Award from FlextechAlliance and has been named Runner-up for the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award. In 2014, her interdisciplinary...

Advanced Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Future High-Power and Renewable Energy Applications DrLin Cheng has 15+ years of wide bandgap semiconductor R&D and manufacturing experience in a combination of industry and academic settings. She received a BS degree in Material Science from Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1988 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio in 2003. Dr. Cheng is currently serving as a senior...